I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANAn almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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